How do we want it? Set in context as part of a narrative journey, indicating
mutual respect and tenderness, slightly po-faced and preachy, and always
firmly rooted within a wider moral universe! Yay!

This, more or less, seems to be the argument presented by the joint forces of
literary heavyweights Philip Pullman and Malorie Blackman (the Children’s
Laureate) who have apparently agreed that one of the ways in which we can
challenge the pernicious influence of internet porn on the minds of the
young is to put “proper” sex into their books.